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Post by Gary R on Jan 30, 2007 20:38:38 GMT
Is the pilot episode to this missing?,also is Arthur Lowe in any of the 13 episodes that followed?.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 31, 2007 9:08:58 GMT
No, it's in the Archive.
No. Arthur was dead by the time the series was recorded.
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Post by Charles Roberts on Jan 31, 2007 10:53:30 GMT
This is one of those questions that seems to be asked every few months or so....
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Post by Stuart Douglas on Jan 31, 2007 13:15:27 GMT
Is the pilot episode to this missing?,also is Arthur Lowe in any of the 13 episodes that followed?. The pilot episode is avaialble on the Dads Army radio show cds, I think. Stuart
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Post by Ed Brown on Sept 15, 2007 20:37:02 GMT
The pilot episode, recorded by Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier, was turned down for series because Arthur's illness was making him slur his dialogue, and unfortunately this made him sound as if he was drunk.
When Arthur died the proposal was reconsidered, with a new cast of John Le Mes, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. Neither Ian nor Bill featured in the pilot recording; and they were not going to be in the series as originally conceived.
Scriptwriter Harold Snoad saved the pilot recording from oblivion. He retained a cassette copy of it when the BBC destroyed the master recording (which was never broadcast). He supplied a copy from his cassette during the BBC's "treasure hunt".
All episodes of the eventual series were also wiped by the BBC, except episode 5 ("Pike in Love") which was retained in mono, and were returned by the general public during the treasure hunt.
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